Writings and Sermons
One of the nights I worked this past week was because of an event held by our local ecumenical group. The Westmount Christian Council formed several decades ago when lay people in St Peter’s neighbourhood decided the Churches should cooperate better. On Sunday evening they hosted a service and fellowship time. I have find it […]
Read MoreI drove to and from my vestry meeting last night listening to episodes of The Collect Call. If you don’t listen to Brendan and Holli, I heartily recommend this. I enjoy it because they are church-y but they are also just plain delightful and entertaining. Holli and Brendan offer The Collect Call as part of […]
Read More“In all that you do, you are to nourish Christ’s people from the riches of his grace, and strengthen them to glorify God in this life and in the life to come.” Book of Common Prayer, 531 I was at Camp as the priest of the week. Right before bedtime, a Counselor brought a camper—an […]
Read MoreIt started at lunch. We were a church-y group at a church-y gathering. I don’t remember how we wound our way to this topic, but we started wondering why our schedule, replete with initial meetings of all of The Episcopal Church’s Councils, Commissions, and Boards (CCABs), didn’t include Eucharist. Being nerdy Church nerds, we understandingly […]
Read MoreI sat at the deathbeds of three Churches. That was the ministry I was called to. It was not the ministry I expected. It was not, in the way that death never is, the ministry I wanted. I could see all the ways the story ended differently. More money, more people, more energy. Some of […]
Read MoreIt was January 2002, the weekend before my 2nd semester of college began. It was the beginning of my acceptance of a priestly vocation and I was sitting in a room at a Church 5 hours away from home, further from college. A priest, whom I’ve known for years and love and respect, said that he […]
Read MoreA recent post by Tony Jones on Theoblogy called for a schism over the question of women’s ordination.** This has kicked off some response. I, as a woman ordained in a liberal branch of Christ’s Church, don’t agree. You might think that I’d appreciate the solidarity for women’s ordination. After all I get quizzical looks and questions […]
Read MoreI’ve just started my new position as rector of St Peter’s in Edmonton. (Six weeks in, so everyone still thinks I’m new. A year from now, church members will still understand that I’m new.) As with most new clergy, I’m frequently asked one question. “How are you going to save the Church?” People don’t actually […]
Read MoreIn the last month almost everything has changed. I’m living in a new city and country; part of a new Diocese in a new Province, rector of a new parish, and settling into my new apartment. Everything is more than fine. Not only is the dog still with me, but Edmonton, my parish, and the […]
Read MoreI started seminary the fall after I graduated college. I moved across the country and, as it happened, away from a Church situation that was…unhealthy…for me. It had been difficult for more than a year before I left. I felt I had little community at my Church; I was not being fed spiritually. I even […]
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Theologybird Writes 